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Open AccessDouble layer silica antireflective films with high strength and rub resistance prepared by sol gel method
The single-layer silica antireflective film with base catalysis prepared by sol gel method is an important part of the high-power laser facility for inertial confinement fusion, while the weak adhesion between...
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Investigation on focused ultrasound-assisted diamond wire sawing of silicon carbide
Focused ultrasound-assisted diamond wire sawing (DWS) is proposed in order to improve the sawing performance in terms of sawing force, surface finish, and edge chip**s. Under the streaming effect of acoustic...
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Photodynamic therapy improves the outcome of immune checkpoint inhibitors via remodelling anti-tumour immunity in patients with gastric cancer
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) plays an immunoregulatory role in tumours. Here, we conducted a retrospective patient analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of PDT plus immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in gastri...
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Design of a Miniature Three-Dimensional Force Sensor for Force Feedback in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Force feedback in robot-assisted surgery is important to enhance the immersion of intraoperative operations. In this paper, a miniaturized small-range three-dimensional force sensor is designed for surgical ro...
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Teleoperation of a Dexterous Hand Using a Wearable Hand
The master-slave teleoperation control system is the key to realizing the dexterous hand to grasp objects stably. This paper introduces a scheme for stable remote control of multi-fingered dexterous hands thro...
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Model-Free Optimal Control for Linear Systems with State and Control Inequality Constraints
A model-free iteration algorithm is presented to obtain the optimal control policy for an linear system in this paper. A novel identification model is introduced, based on which policy updating laws under the ...
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Interaction between gut microbiota and tumour chemotherapy
Chemotherapeutic drugs play an important role in the treatment of cancer, but the individual differences of patients' sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs and the drug resistance of chemotherapeutic drugs hav...
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Tissue factor: a neglected role in cancer biology
Tissue factor (TF), an initiator of extrinsic coagulation pathway, is positively correlated with venous thromboembolism (VTE) of tumor patients. Beyond thrombosis, TF plays a vital role in tumor progression. T...
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Open AccessA Review of Smart Materials for the Boost of Soft Actuators, Soft Sensors, and Robotics Applications
With the advance of smart material science, robotics is evolving from rigid robots to soft robots. Compared to rigid robots, soft robots can safely interact with the environment, easily navigate in unstructure...
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Open AccessRelationship of maternal obesity and vitamin D concentrations with fetal growth in early pregnancy
To evaluate the effects of the association between first trimester vitamin D (VitD) concentrations and increased prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) on early fetal growth restriction (FGR).
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Design, Modeling and Experiments of a Modular Robotic Finger
The robot dexterous hand is a highly flexible and complex end-effector. In response to the complex drive transmission mechanical structure of the traditional humanoid dexterous hand and the difficulty of assem...
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A Grasp Pose Detection Network Based on the DeepLabv3+ Semantic Segmentation Model
Gras** is an important and fundamental action for the interaction between robots and the environment. However, because gras** is a complex system engineering, there is still much room for development. At p...
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Data-Driven Approximate Optimal Trajectory Tracking for Continuous-Time Nonlinear System Based on Differential Dynamic Programming
A data-driven differential dynamic programming (DDP) algorithm is presented to obtain the optimal control policy for an unknown system in this paper. Firstly, we recombine the nonlinear system based on trackin...
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Open AccessInvestigating the sensitivity of Venturia inaequalis isolates to difenoconazole and pyraclostrobin in apple orchards in China
The resistance level of 90 single lesion conidial isolates of Venturia inaequalis collected from multiple commercial orchards in Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces and **njiang Autonomous Region of China to the demethyl...
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Open AccessLinc-KIAA1737–2 promoted LPS-induced HK-2 cell apoptosis by regulating miR-27a-3p/TLR4/NF-κB axis
Inflammation and renal cell apoptosis participate in sepsis-induced acute kidney injury. Previous research found the upregulation of long non-coding RNA Linc-KIAA1737–2 in hypoxia- or inflammation-challenged h...
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Plasma Robot Engineering: The Next Generation of Precision Disease Management
Robotics, once combined with cold atmospheric plasma, represent key elements of the next generation of personalized medicine and contribute to the effective yet immediate response to pandemics. Plasma robots c...
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Open AccessHistological chorioamnionitis is associated with an increased risk of wheezing in preterm children less than 34 gestational weeks
Chorioamnionitis is associated with various neonatal short- and long-term morbidities. The effect of chorioamnionitis on premature children’s outcomes remains controversial. The aim of this study is to investi...
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Design method of one-DOF bio-inspired mechanism based on layered constraint conditions
Bio-inspired mechanism not only needs to be able to reproduce the movement laws of creature, but also has its shape. In order to simplify the design process and improve the design efficiency of one-degree-of-f...
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Trends of Crash Mitigations at High Crash Intersections in Nevada, US Based on Highway Safety Improvement Program
This paper compared total trends of traffic crash frequency and severity at High Crash Location (HCL) intersections during three study periods in Nevada, US. The paper provided an in-depth inspection in selec...
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Response Strategy to Environmental Cues for Modular Robots with Self-Assembly from Swarm to Articulated Robots
This paper proposes a strategy for a group of swarm robots to self-assemble into a single articulated(legged) structure in response to terrain difficulties during autonomous exploration. These articulated stru...
